Nehemiah 1:9
but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 445 BC
WHEN
445 BC
dated by the text itself
WHO RULED
- Artaxerxes I king of Persia 465-424 BC
MEANWHILE
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447-432 BC Greece
Building of the Parthenon
While Nehemiah rebuilds the wall of Jerusalem, Athens builds the Parthenon.
SOURCES
- date — Nehemiah 2:1 dates itself by the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, which is 445 BC by Persian chronology.
- Artaxerxes I — Herodotus VII; Thucydides I; the Elephantine papyri
- Building of the Parthenon — Plutarch, Pericles 13
SEE ALSO
- Jeremiah 29:11-14 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. …
- Deuteronomy 30:2-5 and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, …
- Deuteronomy 4:29-31 But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. …
- Jeremiah 32:37 I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in…
- Leviticus 26:39-42 Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers. …
- Deuteronomy 12:5 Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
- Ezra 6:12 May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have…
- Psalms 147:2 The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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